Bob Barker Speaks Out About Wash. U’s Use of Cats in Labs

Los Angeles, CA - June 07: Television host Bob Barker poses for photographers at his last taping of "The Price is Right" show held at the CBS television city studios in Los Angeles California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 07: Television host Bob Barker poses for photographers during his last taping of "The Price is Right" at the CBS television city studios June 7, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images)

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) — Bob Barker, retired Price is Right host, is offering to pay $75,000 for infant simulators for Washington University, so that students don’t have to practice infant life support on live cats anymore.

He’s even offering to find homes for the nine cats that the university uses, if they’ll take him up on his offer.

Barker claims that Wash U. is the only school in the country which hasn’t switched over to the new, high-tech mannequins.

A Washington University spokesperson says the mannequins just aren’t as realistic for students.

Barker, was on the Mark Reardon Show. Listen to his full interview below: